Wanda Waller - make-up artist

How I got started in the beauty industry:

For the first 17 years of my life I lived in Poland and since I can remember, every day on my way to school, I would stop for few minutes in front of a magazine stand and admire all the overseas magazine covers, especially Vogue. I was also always very curious about skin care and cosmetics, what’s in them, how they work and how they feel on the skin, but I'd never thought about becoming a make-up artist until my gap year after finishing high school. By that time, most of the books I owned, and most of my free time, was spent on doing something related to the beauty industry -like researching new products online or watching YouTube make-up videos. Although I was doing all that, I still hadn't connected the dots and never had never even thought about being a make-up artist, until one day my dad pointed it out to me. During my gap year I saved all the money I made working as a barista to be able to do a course called “Diploma of Specialist Make-up Services”. I finished it in December 2012, and since then I've been a  full time freelance make-up artist. Check out my facebook page here or follow me on instagram @MakeupByWanda

My favourite skincare products:

1. Bioderma Crealine H2O Solution – amazing make-up remover and toner that won’t irritate even the most sensitive eyes.

2. La Roche Posay – basically their whole skin care line. I love French cosmetics!

3.  MILK beauty wipes with dual sided technology – basically the best exfoliating wipes out there.

4. Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream is a fragrance free – multi-use product. I'm a big fan of products that are free of any fragrance.

5. Lush lip exfoliant – comes in variety of flavours and the best part is that you can just lick it off after using it as it's made of sugar!

My favourite make-up products: 

1.MAC Strobe cream – for that editorial glow. It also contains a multitude of great ingredients that will benefit your skin.

2. Kevyn Aucoin curling mascara which comes in slim red tube – the best mascara I've ever used. The formula helps the most straight lashes stay up. I always use eyelash curler before applying any mascara.

3. Inglot Matte lipsticks – better formulated than most high end lipsticks and it won’t dry out your lips.

Final question: mascara or lipstick?

I'm all for educating people about what their best features are, so if you already have amazing lashes, or you've got eyelash extensions, then I would go with a lipstick. You can use the lipstick on your lips (obviously) but also on your eyes and cheeks! But if you already have amazing cheeks and/or your natural lip colour is amazing, then I would go with the mascara, which you can also use as a liner.

    And this look: Wanda by Wanda 

*used for this look

Milk exfoliating beauty wipes NARS bronzer in "Casino" Elizabeth Arden frangrance free "8hour cream" Mac Strobe Cream Kevyn Aucoin curling mascara Red Cherry #213 lashes Various face and eye brushes from Inglot, Bdellium tools, Real Techniques and Designer pro tools Alien perfume by Thierry Mugler Lush lip exfoliant "sweet lips" Face Atelier pro ultra foundation